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Solar support in coal country

In the United States, passage of the Build Back Better Act would extend the solar Investment Tax Credit and offer other clean energy initiatives that would boost the renewable energy momentum already underway in Senator Joe Manchin’s home state of West Virginia. This is good news for the state and is resulting in unlikely allies, reports pv magazine USA senior editor Anne Fischer.

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Anne Fischer

11 Feb 2022

West Virginia has long been coal country, but the time for transition is now short. | Image: Wikimedia Commons

When West Virginian Senator Joe Manchin stated that he could not support the current administration’s proposed Build Back Better Act (BBB), an economic and climate bill that required his support to pass in the Senate, it sent shock waves through the US Capitol building. The impact reverberated from the stock market all the way to …

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